U+1055D "𐕝" Caucasian Albanian Letter Shoy Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐕝
U+1055D "𐕝" Caucasian Albanian Letter Shoy is part of the Caucasian Albanian script, an ancient writing system used between the 5th and 12th centuries CE to record the Caucasian Albanian language, an early Northeast Caucasian language spoken in what is now modern-day Azerbaijan and surrounding regions. This specific letter, named "Shoy," represents a consonant sound in that language and was one of the 52 characters in the alphabet, which was likely developed by the Armenian monk Mesrop Mashtots. The script was rediscovered through manuscripts and inscriptions, and the Shoy character was formally encoded in Unicode version 7.0 in 2014, aiding scholars in digital preservation and study of this historically significant writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1055D |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Caucasian Albanian Letter Shoy |
| Block | Caucasian Albanian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐕝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐕝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0x95 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD801 0xDD5D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001055D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud801\udd5d |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Caucasian Albanian |
| Script Extensions | Caucasian Albanian |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |